Livestock consume 70 percent of U.S. grain production. Twenty million people die each year as a result of malnutrition
and starvation. Americans could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their intake of meat by just 10 percent.

One acre of prime land can produce many pounds of edible product. Here are a few examples: 30,000 pounds of apples,
40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes....250 pounds of beef.

Livestock--cattle, poultry, goats, sheep,--totalling 15 billion worldwide now outnumber people three to one. Livestock
graze on half of the worlds land mass. The explosion of livestock populations has resulted in a parallel explosion of
animal wastes that pollute surface and ground water. U.S. livestock produce 230,000 pounds of excrement per second.
The amount of waste created by a 10,000-head feed lot is equal to the waste of a city of 110,000 people.

World livestock production is now a significant factor in the emission of two of the four global warming gasses: carbon
dioxide and methane. Every steak we eat has the same effect as a 25-mile drive in a typical American car.

Each year, an estimated 125,000 square miles of rainforest are permanently destroyed, bringing about the extinction of
approximately 1,000 plant and animal species.

Producing 1 pound of feedlot steak results in the loss of 35 pounds of topsoil. It takes 200 to 1,000 years to form
1 inch of topsoil.

It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of beef. It takes 49 gallons of water to produce 1 edible
pound of apples.

Eighty percent of the meat produced in the United States contains drugs that are passed on to you when you eat it.

Animal products contain large quantities of saturated fat and cholesterol and have no dietary fiber. The U.S. Surgeon
General has stated that 68 percent of all diseases are diet related. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and grains (and
free from animal products) can prevent, improve, and sometimes cure breast cancer, osteoperosis, prostate cancer, impotence,
and obesity.

Seventy-five percent of federal poultry inspectors say they would not eat chicken.